Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Paperback, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

PS3554.I3

Description

Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can�t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They�ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and �retire� them. But when cornered, androids fight back�with lethal force. Praise for Philip K. Dick �The most...… (more)

Rating

½ (5642 ratings; 4)

Publication

Del Rey (1996), 256 pages

Pages

256

Physical description

256 p.; 5.1 inches

LCC

PS3554.I3

ISBN

0345404475 / 9780345404473
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